Regular Show is a 2010 American animated television series created by J.G. Quintel. It was greenlit on August 14, 2009 by Cartoon Network and debuted on September 6, 2010 (followed by the premiere of MAD). It is based on a short made for the scrapped Cartoonstitute and features characters from two of the creator's student films, "2 in the AM PM" and "The Naive Man from Lolliland". It is rated TV-PG (sometimes TV-PG-V). It is one of the first cartoons on Cartoon Network to heavily feature suggestive language.
Filming for the first season began on November 14, 2009. Producers decided to split the first season in half with the episode "Ello Gov'nor" being advertised as the season two premiere and finished on October 17, 2010. The show officially aired on September 6, 2010 with the episode "The Power".
On September 13, 2010, the show was renewed for a third season and began filming on January 4, 2011 and finished on February 6, 2012 and started with the episode "Stick Hockey". On December 13, 2011 the show was renewed for a fourth season filming began March 12, 2012 and aired on October 1, 2012 with "Exit 9B" filming for this season, which finished on February 8, 2013.
In 2013, few of the season 1 episodes were edited with the mild profanity "piss" replaced with more appropriate literature "tick".
The show concluded on January 16, 2017.
As of Memorial Day 2018, reruns can now be found on Boomerang.
Plot
Two best friends, a blue jay named Mordecai and a brown raccoon named Rigby, work as groundskeepers at a park and spend their days trying to entertain themselves by perfecting useless skills during work hours or any means necessary, much to the chagrin of Benson, a high-tempered gumball machine, and Skips, a yeti, but to the delight of Pops, a naïve English gentleman with a lollipop-shaped head. Muscle Man, an overweight and green man, and Hi Five Ghost, a ghost with a hand extending from the top of his head, are both neutral about Rigby and Mordecai's shenanigans. The episodes usually revolve around the two's personal life such as obtaining concert tickets, getting cake, or making up for a mess they have caused, often leading to highly surreal and unusual events. Rigby pressures Mordecai into doing bad stuff and slacking by working his way around the hard, cold truth.
Characters
Main Characters
Minor Characters
Villains
- Gary (sometimes)
- Guardians of Eternal Youth (sometimes)
- Gene
- Anti-Pops
- One-Time Villains
Trivia
- Regular Show consists of some characters from J.G. Quintel's old college films and sketches mashed together in one show.
- Pops, Mordecai and Benson are the only 3 main characters that are in J.G. Quintel's college films and sketches.
- Regular Show is currently the second long running series on Cartoon Network, the first being Adventure Time, and the third being The Amazing World of Gumball.
- Sam Marin has taken the voicing role as Muscle Man, Pops, and Benson. He has also voiced a few side characters.
- J.G. Quintel was the Creative Director for another Cartoon Network series The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack.
Appearances in other projects
Mordecai and Rigby appeared as audiences in a segment of the Uncle Grandpa episode, Pizza Eve.
Mordecai, Rigby and Hi Five Ghost made a small cameo in The Amazing World of Gumball episode, The Boredom along with titular characters from Uncle Grandpa and Clarence.
Hi Five Ghost appeared in the OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes episode, Crossover Nexus as stone and being restored. Mordecai also appeared as one of Ben 10's transformations.
Home Media
DVD volumes:
- Slack Pack (April 3rd, 2012)
- The Best DVD in the World *At this Moment in Time (November 6th, 2012)
- Party Pack (March 5th, 2013)
- Fright Pack (September 3rd, 2013)
- Mordecai & Margaret Pack (February 11th, 2014)
- Rigby Pack (September 9th, 2014)
- Regular Show and Friends (October 7th, 2014)
- Mordecai Pack (January 27th, 2015)
- Regular Show: The Movie (October 13th, 2015)
Season DVDs:
- The Complete First and Second Seasons (July 16th, 2013)
- The Complete Third Season (June 17th, 2014)
Languages
- English: Regular Show
- Spanish: Historias Corrientes (Spain)/ Un Show Mas (Latin America)
- Hungarian: Park műsor
- French Castillian: Le Regular Series
- Polish: Zwyczajny Serial
- Turkish: Sürekli Dizi
- Italian: Regular Show
- Romanian: Un Show obisnuit
- Brazilian Portuguese: Apenas um Show
- Bulgarian: Пaрк шoy
- Russian: Обычный мультик
- Chinese (Taiwan Ver.): 天兵公園
- Filipino: Pang-karaniwang na Palabas
- Korean: 레귤러 쇼 (Regular Show)
- Vietnamese: Chương trình thường nhật (Regular Show)
- Arabic: العرض العادي
Gallery
External Refererences
Broadcast history
- Cartoon Network (2010-2017, reruns 2017-2019)
- Boomerang (2018-2019; reruns)
2010 | Adventure Time • Ben 10: Ultimate Alien • Generator Rex • The Cartoonstitute • Regular Show • Tower Prep • Sym-Bionic Titan • Robotomy |
2011 | The Problem Solverz • Secret Mountain Fort Awesome |
2012 | Level Up • Ben 10: Omniverse |
2013 | Incredible Crew • Uncle Grandpa • Steven Universe |
2014 | Clarence • Black Dynamite • Over the Garden Wall |
2015 | We Bare Bears • Long Live the Royals |
2016 | The Powerpuff Girls • Mighty Magiswords |
2017 | Ben 10 • OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes |
2018 | Apple & Onion • Craig of the Creek • Summer Camp Island |
2019 | Victor and Valentino • Mao Mao: Heroes of Pure Heart • Infinity Train • Primal • Steven Universe Future |
2020 | JJ Villard's Fairy Tales • Adventure Time: Distant Lands • Close Enough • Tig n' Seek • The Fungies! |
2022 | We Baby Bears |
2023 | Unicorn: Warriors Eternal • Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake • Jessica's Big Little World |
2024 | Invincible Fight Girl |
TBA | Battu • Gross Girls • Unnamed Ben 10 Series • |
1993 | The Moxy Show |
1994 | Space Ghost Coast to Coast |
1995 | What a Cartoon! |
1996 | Dexter's Laboratory • Big Bag |
1997 | Johnny Bravo • Cow and Chicken • I Am Weasel |
1998 | The Powerpuff Girls |
1999 | Ed, Edd n Eddy • Mike, Lu & Og • Courage the Cowardly Dog |
2010 | Adventure Time • Ben 10: Ultimate Alien • Generator Rex • Regular Show • Sym-Bionic Titan • Tower Prep • Robotomy |
2011 | The Problem Solverz • The Amazing World of Gumball • Secret Mountain Fort Awesome |
2012 | Level Up • The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange • Ben 10: Omniverse |
2013 | Incredible Crew • Uncle Grandpa • Steven Universe |
2014 | Clarence • Over the Garden Wall |
2015 | We Bare Bears • Long Live the Royals |
2016 | The Powerpuff Girls • Mighty Magiswords |
2017 | Ben 10 • OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes |
2018 | Apple & Onion • Craig of the Creek • Summer Camp Island |
2019 | Victor and Valentino • Mao Mao: Heroes of Pure Heart • Infinity Train • Steven Universe Future |
2021 | Elliott from Earth • The Fungies! • Tig n' Seek |
2022 | We Baby Bears |
2023 | Jessica's Big Little World • The Heroic Quest of the Valiant Prince Ivandoe |
2024 | Invincible Fight Girl |
TBA | Battu • Gross Girls • The Amazing World of Gumball: The Series • Unnamed Ben 10 Series |